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THE AMERICAN PATRIOT MOVEMENT inducted between 40,000 and 160,000 men across the northeastern states into the clandestine Hunters' Lodge. The Lodge represented widespread violent support of the 1837 Rebellions in [...]

ABSTRACTS / RESUMES FEW HAVE EXAMINED THE CLASS politics of pre-Rebellion Toronto in any detail; a vocabulary of class born in an industrial setting appears poorly fitted to an agrarian [...]

Abstract This article addresses the economic roots of the fight for democratic reform in Upper Canada, and the role of a small religious sect, the Children of Peace, in particular. [...]

This article examines Johannes van der Bosch's policies of poverty relief and colonialism. The author argues that Van der Bosch founded Veenjuizen, an agricultural colony in which the criminalized poor worked in the Netherlands, and instituted the Cultivation System in the Dutch colonies in Indonesia in an effort to use these forms of poverty relief to build a capitalistic regime.

Widespread fosterage and adoption has recently emerged around Lake Poso in Central Sulawesi within the wider constraints of peasantization, whereby kin are ideologically set off as a source of noncommodified labor for a newly constituted peasantry. The differentiation of this peasantry has been blunted and a kin-based 'moral economy' created through the transfer of dependents (rather than resources) between households. This transfer of kin has been eased by a concept of parentage that stresses nurturance and sharing, not just filiation. Class tensions are muted by the insistence that the calculation of costs and benefits between kin is unseemly. Fosterage, however, open up tensions as some 'parents' exploit their newly acquired 'free' domestic labor. This article focuses on the terms foster children use to resist this exploitation, namely their refusal to acknowledge a parental tie. Drawing on historically constituted relations of subordination, these dependents draw on the now legally defunct vocabulary of master (kabosenya) and slave (watua) to describe their position. Keywords: [parenthood, adoption, development, slavery]

Analysis of Geertz's concept of 'shared poverty' has generally been restricted to the case of Java. By examining a newly created peasantry in the highlands of Sulawesi, I challenge the assumptions underlying Geertz's formulation of 'shared poverty' and that of his critics. These critics have questioned the applicability of the concept in a commodified economy, but have accepted its relevance in an increasingly more remote and 'traditional' past. This case study, in contrast, attempts to demonstrate that 'shared poverty' is less a characteristic of a traditional economy, than the product of the differentiation of the peasantry under capitalism. Geertz's original universalistic ethical formulation of the concept is criticized for failing to specify the bounded kin groups within which it applies., In this article, I address the apparently incongruous processes of development and the intensification of tradition in a highland village in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia. The To Pamona of the village [...]

Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2009 320 pages. $70.00 hardcover. ISBN 978-0-8020-9927-3 (www.utppublishing.com) In this tightly-packed, ambitious volume, Albert Schrauwers depicts a fresh version of the history of Upper Canada [...]

To Pamona couples are generally married in three ceremonies: traditional, church, and civil. Here, I treat each ceremony as a performative genre that constitutes the household differently. Both church and state actors see themselves as modernist reformers of tradition, which they view as a hindrance to development. I argue, however, that the traditional household form is the product of the modernizing efforts of church and state and hence points to a process of the development of underdevelopment. The wedding has become a key site of cultural contestation in which the constitution of the household is the outcome affecting livelihoods and the distribution of resources. The flows of performative elements from one genre of wedding ceremony to another are thus attempts to assert and resist hegemony. [wedding ceremony, development, household, gender inequality, performance]